Reverential capitalization

The rules of English spelling are a mess, and so are its rules for capitalization. It’s so simple in German: Capitalize the first letter of a sentence and all nouns. Period. Punkt! (Actually, not exactly Punkt! You also capitalize formal second-person pronouns and then there’s adjectives derived from geographical place-names ending in “-er.” But that’s about it for German.)
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